On Saturday, August 17, 2024, the 15th CORA-Nigeria Prize for Literature Book Party will hold at the Shell Hall, MUSON Centre, Onikan, Lagos, by 1:00pm. The party, a literary feast of ideas and life, celebrates the writers longlisted for the 2024 edition of the $100,000 Nigeria Prize for Literature (NPL),and their works for emerging as some of the best in the country. It promises to be an afternoon of literary feasting, featuring performances, wining and dining.
Endowed and promoted by the Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas (NLNG), the CORA-Nigeria Prize for Literature Book Party – a special iteration of the CORA Book Party launched in 1996 — was initiated after a review of the first five years of the Prize project. According to a statement from CORA, “the idea is to create a platform through which the public gets to engage with the works considered the best of the usually, over 100 entries per edition of the NPL.” CORA is a group consisting of artistes, art enthusiasts, art promoters and art writers committed to the flowering of all the contemporary arts of the Nigerian people.
It has organised, every year since 1999, the Lagos Book & Art Festival (LABAF), which has been described as “the biggest Culture picnic on the African continent.” The 26th edition holds November 11 to 17, 2024 with Breakout: Hope is a Stubborn Thing, as theme. The genre in focus this year is Children’s Literature and the 11writers were drawn from 163 entries submitted for the 2024 edition of .